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Major Gifts in the USA - $845 million + $38 million International
Week of December 28 to 31, 2009
The following is a partial list of major gifts from newswire announcements from December 28 to December 31, 2009. The complete Major Gift Report is sponsored by DonorSearch.net and can be found in the Major Gift Research section of their web site.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania William Penn Foundation received $747 million from the Haas charitable trusts $767,000,000
Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Foundation awarded grants to a wide range of Ohio nonprofits including:
Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $1,000,000 + for the education initiative
Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $750,000 to help implement its transformation plan
Starting Point - $450,000
Youth Opportunities Unlimited - $300,000
Cuyahoga County Family and Children First Council - $270,000 $15,000,000
Baltimore, Maryland A grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to four East Baltimore public schools in support of a redevelopment project the schools will become centers for providing health, social and employment services to students and their families under a four-year grant program $12,000,000
Pasadena, California OneWest Bank, FSB establishes new corporate foundation with this gift $10,000,000
East River Area of New York The Alphawood Foundation of Chicago grant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island to help fund the construction of this new park $10,000,000
Cambridge, Massachusetts Tufts Health Plan Foundation awarded grants to nonprofits in the state of Massachusetts including:
Cambridge Community Foundation and Cambridge’s East End House – combined grant of $35,000
East End House - $25,000
Cambridge Community Foundation - $10,000 $2,000,000
Uniontown, Pennsylvania An estate gift from retired coal miner Joseph Raymond to Uniontown Church who was 90 years old when he died earlier this year $1,000,000
Mankato, Minnesota Al Annexstad’s gift to the St. Peter School District that he grew up in, a legacy gift $500,000
Charlotte, North Carolina, United Family Services received a check from the Leon Levine Foundation to help expand a women’s shelter $250,000
Sunman, Indiana Sunman Rural Fire Department received a grant from the Dearborn Community Foundation for a new mobile air compressor $90,651
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania CSL Behring, a global leader in the plasma-protein biotherapies industry and a subsidiary of CSL Limited awarded four advocacy grants to patient organizations in the USA through the Local Empowerment for Advocacy Development $87,000
Youngstown, Ohio The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. received a donation from JP Morgan Chase to help fund two projects for homeownership and the reuse of vacant land $60,000
Topeka, Kansas Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation awarded six area school nurses grants $53,000
International
Paris, France Constellation Energy Group announced a contribution by Electricite de France to the company's foundation
The Constellation Energy Group Foundation supports programs and makes grants to nonprofit organizations in four focus areas: energy, education, economic growth and the environment. $36,000,000
Toronto, Ontario, Canada Michael J. Fox Foundation awards $2 million in grants to researchers:
Jeffrey Hausdorff, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Simon Lewis, MD, Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
Colum MacKinnon, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
Wayne Martin, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada $2,000,000
Paris, France The French Hospital Medical Center Foundation has set up an endowment fund after receiving a donation from an anonymous donor $500,000
Hampshire, England Hampshire Autistic Society got a corporate gift from the Gannett Foundation £3,300
Major Gifts USA & Internationally - $31 million
Week of December 21 to 24, 2009
The following is a partial list of major gifts from newswire announcements from December 21 to December 24, 2009. To view my complete Major Gift Report go to the DonorSearch.net web site.
Permission has been given to several consultants and research organizations to reprint my weekly report including Brian Lacy & Associates, Jay Frost on Fundraising and all APRA chapters.
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Oakland, California 20 private foundations help support state census process in the state of California
According to reports out of Oakland, they have awarded grants to more than 125 community organizations that have strong connections to people the U.S. Census Bureau has had difficulty counting in the past $9,000,000
Santa Paula, California Thomas Aquinas College received a grant from Dan Murphy Foundation in honor of the college’s late president and is a led gift in the new capital campaign $2,000,000
Flint, Michigan An estate gift from of Earl Riopelle and his wife Lanice is one of the largest ever received Kettering University $1,200,000
Manoa, Hawaii The University of Hawaii Mānoa’s School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene received this gift from four of Hawaii’s healthcare companies:
Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA) Foundation $500,000;
Hawai‘i Pacific Health $250,000;
Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i $50,000;
and the Queen’s Medical Center $250,000
to the Hawai‘i Nursing Simulation Center Fund $1,050,000
Macon County, Georgia The Community Foundation of Decatur/Macon County announced $1 million from the Charles D. and Patricia A. Perkinson Endowment Fund
The $1 million gift qualifies for a matching gift of $1 million from the Grand Victoria Foundation in Chicago $1,000,000
Tahlequah, Oklahoma A gift from Gregg Wadley and his wife, Dr. Betsy Brackett to Northeastern State University, School of Education, will be used for a clinic to help students overcome reading deficiencies. This is the largest gift in the university’s history $1,000,000
Manhattan, Kansas The Keatings, a local couple in Manhattan, donated this gift and named The Good Shepherd Hospice, a 12 bed facility $500,000
Charlotte, North Carolina Leon Levine Foundation to double its pledge to United Family Services to expand the women’s shelter $250,000
Washington, D.C. A grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
The Knight Foundation joins the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Markle Foundation as key supporters $200,000
Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra received a $150,000 challenge grant from the Fifth Third Bank and Narley L.. Haley, Trustees of the B.B., E.W. and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation just one week after it received the mega gift of $75 million from Louise Nippert $150,000
Chelsea, Michigan The Purple Rose Theatre Company got a grant from the Chelsea Community Foundation $17,000
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CIGNA has signed on as the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra's Free concert for 20th year.
The free concert honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 18, 2010 Corporate Sponsor 20th consecutive year
International
Jerusalem, Israel The Israel Museum announced a gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations that capped off the $100 million campaign for its 20 acre campus $12 million
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